Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Happiness for All: The Downside?


Toque McToque was thinking of the They Might Be Giants song “Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love,” and she said how cool it would be if one of us could invent bullets of pure love. When you shot people with them, they would be filled with love for humanity. “Just think how happy everyone would be,” she said. At first I thought this sounded wonderful, but then I started to wonder if there could be a down side. If people were happy, they would not see any need to strive to make things better, and would you really want that in an aviation engineer, for instance? Is there a down side to everything? Or would there be no down side to everyone being happy? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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